Foundations of Drawing:
As our semester comes to a close every student should be turning in missing assignments in order to receive a partial grade. If you have questions about what you are missing, be sure to visit with me in class.
As a reminder of what we've done the last week:
- We finished our "4 portraits" drawing - 65 pts.
- We did an introductory worksheet called "Working with the Grid". This was a drawing of a baseball player that we increase in size by using the guidelines of a grid.
- We did a second worksheet "Working with the Grid 2" that was similar to the first but incorporated value.
- We've started our large scale, in-depth grid drawing using the images that we brought from home. The last day to work on these in class will be Friday the 10th.
Final:
We will be conducting our final on Tuesday, Dec. 15th. We will do quick review on Monday. I will be posting more about our last week of school later this week. Keep your eyes peeled.
Tip:
Remember to study and know the differences between Representational, Abstract and Non-Objective art.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Mr. Briscoe's Class: 11/16-11/24
Foundations of Drawing
Brief Recap:
We recently finished our section on perspective drawing. Our last big project dealt with two-point perspective and resulted in a drawing of thirty boxes executed in a "city block-esque" layout.
Friday the 14th we discussed three new concepst: Representationalism, Abstraction and Non-Objective art. We had a handout and a class discussion about some art history and how artists choose different styles to work within as a function of how they might best express their personal ideas and thoughts. These concepts will be on the test so be prepared to know the following definitions.
Representationalism-Any artwork based on people, places or things that looks very much like what one sees. A visually accurate depiction.
Abstraction-Any artwork based on people, places, things that represents the essence of what one sees. A conceptual depiction.
Non-Objective-Any artwork without recognizable natural objects. A depiction sourced in the artist's imagination.
Monday through Wednesday we worked on a packet that was a tutorial on how to draw the human face. This was a very important excercise that taught us the basic framework for representing facial features with accuracy. This packet is worth 50 points and should be submitted to me ASAP.
Thursday through Tuesday the 24th: As we head into Thanksgiving break we will be finishing up the last of four classroom drawings. We have spend the last four class periods dedicated to drawing a different student with a focus on facial proportion (size of head, nose, mouth, eyes and proper placement). If you have missed class during this time you are expected to do these drawings at home of friends or family members. Final due date on this portrait assignment is December 1st.
Have a great Thanksgiving break!
- Mr. Briscoe
Brief Recap:
We recently finished our section on perspective drawing. Our last big project dealt with two-point perspective and resulted in a drawing of thirty boxes executed in a "city block-esque" layout.
Friday the 14th we discussed three new concepst: Representationalism, Abstraction and Non-Objective art. We had a handout and a class discussion about some art history and how artists choose different styles to work within as a function of how they might best express their personal ideas and thoughts. These concepts will be on the test so be prepared to know the following definitions.
Representationalism-Any artwork based on people, places or things that looks very much like what one sees. A visually accurate depiction.
Abstraction-Any artwork based on people, places, things that represents the essence of what one sees. A conceptual depiction.
Non-Objective-Any artwork without recognizable natural objects. A depiction sourced in the artist's imagination.
Monday through Wednesday we worked on a packet that was a tutorial on how to draw the human face. This was a very important excercise that taught us the basic framework for representing facial features with accuracy. This packet is worth 50 points and should be submitted to me ASAP.
Thursday through Tuesday the 24th: As we head into Thanksgiving break we will be finishing up the last of four classroom drawings. We have spend the last four class periods dedicated to drawing a different student with a focus on facial proportion (size of head, nose, mouth, eyes and proper placement). If you have missed class during this time you are expected to do these drawings at home of friends or family members. Final due date on this portrait assignment is December 1st.
Have a great Thanksgiving break!
- Mr. Briscoe
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Mr. Briscoe's Class: 11/8 - 11/12
Foundations of Drawing
Monday we introduced a two point perspective project and worked in class through Thursday. Below is an explanation of the project.
30 Shapes – Two Point Perspective Drawing - #9
Using your knowledge of Two Point Perspective do a drawing of 30 shapes receding towards two vanishing points. The effect should be like thirty boxes lined up like sky-skrapers.
PROJECT GUIDELINES:
1) 30 boxes in two point perspective.
2) MUST HAVE: two vanishing points and horizon line.
3) Boxes must be draw from up from your original vanishing lines. This will give the appearance of the boxes receding in a group/line towards the vanishing point - effect should be like a city block
4) Shapes should overlap but cannot connect/touch. This means there should be a gap between each box drawn.
RUBRIC:
Student understands and can apply Two Pt. Perspective – 15 pts
Student used high degree of detail and filled page well – 10 pts
Effort – Good use of class time – 15 pts.
Craftsmanship – Neat, Clean, Complete – 15 pts
Remember:
def. Two Point Perspective – Perspective in which all parallel lines converge at two points on the horizon.
Thank you,
Mr. Briscoe
Give me an e-mail if you have any questions:
brandon.briscoe@leesummit.k12.mo.us
Monday we introduced a two point perspective project and worked in class through Thursday. Below is an explanation of the project.
30 Shapes – Two Point Perspective Drawing - #9
Using your knowledge of Two Point Perspective do a drawing of 30 shapes receding towards two vanishing points. The effect should be like thirty boxes lined up like sky-skrapers.
PROJECT GUIDELINES:
1) 30 boxes in two point perspective.
2) MUST HAVE: two vanishing points and horizon line.
3) Boxes must be draw from up from your original vanishing lines. This will give the appearance of the boxes receding in a group/line towards the vanishing point - effect should be like a city block
4) Shapes should overlap but cannot connect/touch. This means there should be a gap between each box drawn.
RUBRIC:
Student understands and can apply Two Pt. Perspective – 15 pts
Student used high degree of detail and filled page well – 10 pts
Effort – Good use of class time – 15 pts.
Craftsmanship – Neat, Clean, Complete – 15 pts
Remember:
def. Two Point Perspective – Perspective in which all parallel lines converge at two points on the horizon.
Thank you,
Mr. Briscoe
Give me an e-mail if you have any questions:
brandon.briscoe@leesummit.k12.mo.us
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Great Show at Kemper Gallery in Crossroads
I suggest that everyone take the time to visit the Keltie Ferris Solo Exhibit: Man Eaters at the Kemper Gallery at 33 W. 19th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64108. It is a fantastic show to have in Kansas City, don't miss the chance to stop by and see these beautiful works.
"Keltie Ferris is a postdigital painter, employing formalist strategies and materials—oil, acrylic, sprayed paint, and oil pastel—to create enigmatic and visually seductive abstractions. Her quick, gestural marks, hard-edged forms, and diaphanous passages of sprayed oil paint demonstrate rigorous investigations of spatial illusion, color, and surface texture. Motley textures, marks, and palettes hover and collide into one another, creating complex compositions of competing strata of visual information. While recalling the works of Joan Mitchell, Sigmar Polke, Ross Bleckner, or Albert Oehlen, Ferris’s methodically structured paintings uniquely evoke the digital networks and urban topographies of the twenty-first century. And, with titles such as Lady Stardust (David Bowie’s 1972 hit), our minds are punctuated with a broad range of associations from identity politics to pop-culture icons."
Mr. Briscoe's Class: 11/2 - 11/6
Foundations of Drawing
Monday through Wednesday we continued working on our One Point Perspective Project. Wednesday was our last full work day. The complete project is due Wednesday, Nov. 13th. If you are unaware of the project guidelines please look at last weeks post.
Thursday we introduced Two Point Perspective. Two Point Perspective utilizes two vanishing points to create a different type of three diminsionality. Two Point Perspective requires that two separate sets of lines converge at one point to give the illusion of shapes receding in two directions. See example below:
We also did a practice worksheet that is worth 20 points. Here is a great online tutorial to show you how to use Two-Point Perspective properly.
Friday we continued working on the Two Point Perspective worksheet and introduced Three-Pt.Perspective (third vanishing point) to the mix. When students finished they had time to continue working on their One Pt. Perspective Project (due Wed. 13th
As always, e-mail me with any questions: brandon.briscoe@leesummit.k12.mo.us
Monday through Wednesday we continued working on our One Point Perspective Project. Wednesday was our last full work day. The complete project is due Wednesday, Nov. 13th. If you are unaware of the project guidelines please look at last weeks post.
Thursday we introduced Two Point Perspective. Two Point Perspective utilizes two vanishing points to create a different type of three diminsionality. Two Point Perspective requires that two separate sets of lines converge at one point to give the illusion of shapes receding in two directions. See example below:
We also did a practice worksheet that is worth 20 points. Here is a great online tutorial to show you how to use Two-Point Perspective properly.
Friday we continued working on the Two Point Perspective worksheet and introduced Three-Pt.Perspective (third vanishing point) to the mix. When students finished they had time to continue working on their One Pt. Perspective Project (due Wed. 13th
As always, e-mail me with any questions: brandon.briscoe@leesummit.k12.mo.us
Friday, October 30, 2009
Mr. Briscoe - 10/26-10/30
Foundations of Drawing
Monday - Was the last work day on our Circles and Ellipses Project. The final due date is Monday the 2nd.
Tuesday we introduced a new concept this week - one point perspective. One point perspective is a perspective in which all parallel lines converge at wo points on the horizon. We discussed this in class and did a worksheet to practice. This worksheet is worth 10 pts.
Wednesday the class continued discussing one point perspective and its roll in architecture. We took several images and traced how lines in architecture meet at one single point of convergence called the vanishing point. This worksheet was worth 10 pts.
Thursday and Friday we started a new project called Explosive Shapes. Students used their new knowledge of One Point Perspective to do a drawing of 30 shapes exploding from one vanishing point.
PROJECT GUIDELINES:
1) 30 shapes in one point perspective (15 squares/rectangles, 15 shapes of your choice).
2) MUST HAVE: vanishing point and horizon line. Shapes must be above and below horizon line.
3) Establish light source and shade accordingly
4) BE CREATIVE: overlapping, crashing shapes, background design etc.
RUBRIC:
Student understands and can apply One Pt. Perspective – 15 pts
Student used value properly – 10 pts
Student used high degree of detail and creativity – 10 pts
Effort – Good use of class time – 15 pts.
Craftsmanship – Neat, Clean, Complete – 15 pts
Give me an e-mail if you have any questions:
brandon.briscoe@leesummit.k12.mo.us
Monday - Was the last work day on our Circles and Ellipses Project. The final due date is Monday the 2nd.
Tuesday we introduced a new concept this week - one point perspective. One point perspective is a perspective in which all parallel lines converge at wo points on the horizon. We discussed this in class and did a worksheet to practice. This worksheet is worth 10 pts.
Wednesday the class continued discussing one point perspective and its roll in architecture. We took several images and traced how lines in architecture meet at one single point of convergence called the vanishing point. This worksheet was worth 10 pts.
Thursday and Friday we started a new project called Explosive Shapes. Students used their new knowledge of One Point Perspective to do a drawing of 30 shapes exploding from one vanishing point.
PROJECT GUIDELINES:
1) 30 shapes in one point perspective (15 squares/rectangles, 15 shapes of your choice).
2) MUST HAVE: vanishing point and horizon line. Shapes must be above and below horizon line.
3) Establish light source and shade accordingly
4) BE CREATIVE: overlapping, crashing shapes, background design etc.
RUBRIC:
Student understands and can apply One Pt. Perspective – 15 pts
Student used value properly – 10 pts
Student used high degree of detail and creativity – 10 pts
Effort – Good use of class time – 15 pts.
Craftsmanship – Neat, Clean, Complete – 15 pts
Give me an e-mail if you have any questions:
brandon.briscoe@leesummit.k12.mo.us
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Mr. Klausing's Art Classes- Oct. 19-22
In Drawing I, students continued to work on their house drawings using 1 or 2-point perspective.
These drawings are due on Wednesday, Oct. 28th. If you have been absent for more than two days, be sure to talk to Mr. Klausing about arranging an extended due date. There was no required sketch for the week of 10/19-10/22. The next sketch that is due is a still-life of at least 3 fruits or vegetables and it is due on Friday, October 30th. Students who have not turned in their sketchbooks to have the in-class sketchbook activities for the first 7 weeks of school accounted for need to do that as soon as possible as those points are now recorded in Powergrade. Students in Drawing I will begin working with drawing portraits and figure drawings next week.
In Drawing II, students completed work on their close-up pastel drawings and turned those in on Oct. 22nd. During classtime, students worked on some still-life drawings of bones using pen and india ink. Those were turned in with their required sketches on October 22. The next required sketch for Drawing II is a portrait or a figure drawing showing action. It is due on Thursday, Oct. 29th.
Drawing III students continued working on their Independent Study Projects. The due date for the current Independent Study Project drawing is Friday, October 30th. The next required sketch for Drawing III is Genre Sketch #3. This sketch should be of an individual or individuals doing what they do on a daily basis. This sketch is due on Thursday, October 29th.
Painting II and III students are working on producing five paintings for the fall play Is He Dead? All of these paintings are copies of famous master paintings by Jean Francois Millet, a famous French realist of the 19th century.
In IB Visual Arts and Portfolio, both Juniors and Seniors are working on their theme-based Independent Study Projects. This will be the 2nd Independent Study project for seniors and the first for Juniors. These projects are due on Wednesday, Oct. 28th.
In Drawing I, students continued to work on their house drawings using 1 or 2-point perspective.
These drawings are due on Wednesday, Oct. 28th. If you have been absent for more than two days, be sure to talk to Mr. Klausing about arranging an extended due date. There was no required sketch for the week of 10/19-10/22. The next sketch that is due is a still-life of at least 3 fruits or vegetables and it is due on Friday, October 30th. Students who have not turned in their sketchbooks to have the in-class sketchbook activities for the first 7 weeks of school accounted for need to do that as soon as possible as those points are now recorded in Powergrade. Students in Drawing I will begin working with drawing portraits and figure drawings next week.
In Drawing II, students completed work on their close-up pastel drawings and turned those in on Oct. 22nd. During classtime, students worked on some still-life drawings of bones using pen and india ink. Those were turned in with their required sketches on October 22. The next required sketch for Drawing II is a portrait or a figure drawing showing action. It is due on Thursday, Oct. 29th.
Drawing III students continued working on their Independent Study Projects. The due date for the current Independent Study Project drawing is Friday, October 30th. The next required sketch for Drawing III is Genre Sketch #3. This sketch should be of an individual or individuals doing what they do on a daily basis. This sketch is due on Thursday, October 29th.
Painting II and III students are working on producing five paintings for the fall play Is He Dead? All of these paintings are copies of famous master paintings by Jean Francois Millet, a famous French realist of the 19th century.
In IB Visual Arts and Portfolio, both Juniors and Seniors are working on their theme-based Independent Study Projects. This will be the 2nd Independent Study project for seniors and the first for Juniors. These projects are due on Wednesday, Oct. 28th.
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